Fortnite's Cube Explodes, Briefly Transports Players To New Dimension

At about 1pm EST today, Fortnite’s cube began to pulse, then glow and spin. When the spinning reached a fever pitch, a burst of white light shot from the cube, transporting players to a white, Matrix-meets-The Good Place-esque world. I floated, suspended in space, until being uncerimoniously dumped back to a Loot Lake with a new island in the middle. (I was then killed.)

I have no idea what this portends (my game promptly crashed), but I’m sure players are already piecing together the mystery of what happened.

Epic teased something big in a tweet last week advising players to be in-game for the end of the Fortnitemares Halloween event. Many players suspected this event would signal the end of Kevin, and Fortnitedataminers found references to the cube cracking and the codename “butterfly,” suggesting something would emerge from the cube once it destructed.

At the beginning of Season 6, Kevin emerged from the lake, carrying the area’s island into the sky with him. The island then drifted across the map, activating the runes, which became corrupted areas full of Shadow Stones, before returning to the lake. At the start of the Fortnitemares event, the island fractured and Kevin released a fissure of purple light (and also monsters). Since then, Kevin has been cracking, leading up to today’s events.